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perversity::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | perverseness |
| Type of | evilness, evil |
| Derivation | perverse |
there will always be a few people who, through macho perversity, gain satisfaction from bullying and terrorism.
perversity::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | contrariness, perverseness |
| Type of | willfulness, unruliness, wilfulness, fractiousness |
| Has types | orneriness, cussedness |
| Derivation | perverse |
Examples of perversity
perversity
He intends to dazzle and seduce us with the romance of his suffering perversity.
From the online.wsj.com
Mr Crockett started by noting the perversity of the way the IMF pays for itself.
From the economist.com
The wide, gray-green eyes send out satellite signals of precocity or perversity.
From the time.com
From the very start he has been an abnormality pioneer, a purveyor of perversity.
From the nytimes.com
I'm always game for spreading a little of the joy of perversity around Wikipedia.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Why then do the bonobos launch into extended orgies of polymorphous perversity?
From the time.com
She's not talking about Life as much as she's talking about closed-off perversity.
From the guardian.co.uk
The perversity of human memory is that over time memory both improves and declines.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
He went public on English television, as a panelist of dependable perversity.
From the time.com
- Contrariness: deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline
- Deliberately deviating from what is good; "there will always be a few people who, through macho perversity, gain satisfaction from bullying and terrorism"
- (perverse) marked by a disposition to oppose and contradict; "took perverse satisfaction in foiling her plans"
- (perverse) contrary: resistant to guidance or discipline; "Mary Mary quite contrary"; "an obstinate child with a violent temper"; "a perverse mood"; "wayward behavior"
- (perverse) depraved: deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good; "depraved criminals"; "a perverted sense of loyalty"; "the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat"
- In topology, a branch of mathematics, intersection homology is a generalization of homology theory for singular spaces, discovered by Mark Goresky and Robert MacPherson in the fall of 1974 and developed by them over the next few years.
- (Perverse (album)) Perverse is the third album by the British rock band Jesus Jones in 1993. Releases were "The Devil You Know", "The Right Decision" and "Zeroes and Ones". "The Devil You Know" reached number 1 on the Modern Rock chart in the U.S. ...
- (Perversities) Daniel Ashton - 07510980717
- The quality of being perverse; A perverse act
